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What We Do

Leads security engineering efforts for Microsoft and Identity Management platforms including cloud. This role will be central to delivering strategic identity and access management solutions that strengthen the security posture of First American and its global partners. You will take ownership of the design, implementation, and management of Microsoft solutions, including Workforce Identity and B2B, and ensuring comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) services across the organization.

How You'll Contribute

• Lead complex technical engineering discussions for purpose to create solutions designed to drive innovation while ensuring solutions are designed for secure deployment in the cloud and other platforms.

• Collaborate with Operations, Governance, and Engineering teams to ensure the secure development, deployment, and optimization of access management services.

• Drive innovation, establish best practices, and influence the future architecture of identity security while being hands-on in developing solutions.

• Make recommendations on integration strategies, engineering solutions, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize product effectiveness.

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic customers across the business and engage with Architects and senior management to identify customer priorities, technical objections and design strategies encompassing the entire ecosystem to deliver business value.

• Perform market research on best-of-breed technologies and lead the engineering team to develop successful proof-of-concepts to test and learn new capabilities.

• Lead discussions with business partners to clearly understand opportunities and identify innovative ways to leverage technology to solve complex business issues.

• Design, develop and enhance technical architecture patterns and frameworks for others to leverage across the enterprise.

• Work with customers, stakeholders, product managers, and product owners to understand and maintain a high-level understanding of the current and upcoming requirements for the system

• Understand and communicate the nonfunctional requirements for the system.

• Evaluate design alternatives, and perform cost benefit analysis.

• Develop and maintain whatever models and documentation are necessary to describe how the system does what it is intended to do, including recommended domain and user case models

• ·Define and split large architectural objectives into smaller incremental objectives.

• Present the technological vision of the solution during planning, provide domain models and exemplary use cases that describe larger system behavior, and participate actively in interactively during the planning process.

• Champion change by serving as a resource to help teams make appropriate system and component level design decisions during implementation.

• Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized phases of applications programming.

• Research, design, write, test and implement complex software applications and systems.

• Provide practical, actionable approaches to overcoming technical and procedural challenges in implementing strategy.

• Lead Cloud Identity governance.

• Champion change; drive and set technical direction affecting multiple groups/business units.

• Provide leadership by instructing, mentoring and training team members within and outside the work gr